IV. Long Answer Type Questions
1. List three main causes for the decline of Indian handicrafts.
2. How did the Industrial Revolution of England affect the weavers in India ?
3. Why did the production of iron and steel decline in the mid-nineteenth century ?
4. Which new industries were established in India in the second half of the 19th century?
5. How did the First World War speed up the process of industrialization in India?
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Answer:
Answer 1)
1.British goods were cheaper and easily available in the market. This made the demand for Indian handicrafts fall drastically
2.Most of the Indian handicrafts were purchased by affluent people like Nawabs, kings etc.but with coming of colonial powers these classes of people suffered finacially to buy this expensive crafts
3.Indians were introduced to a British taste and very few people were actually interested in buying Indian goods
Explanation:
Answer 2)
Prior to the industrial revolution, India had an internationally acclaimed cotton textile industry and exported to different parts of the world including Europe, Middle East and the Americas among others. After the Industrial Revolution, Britain started producing machine-made goods and textiles that were much cheaper than the Indian goods. They were also often better in quality. Indian handicrafts slowly died because they could not compete against the cheaper products from Britain that were flooding the Indian markets
Answer 3) Indian textiles were in great in demand in England. This was a matter of concern for British cloth manufacturers. They began to put pressure on their government to ban the import of Indian textiles. The Industrial revolution revolutionized the textile industry in Britain. Cloth began to be made on machines. This made it cheaper than cloth made by hand. Indian textiles also lost out to British textiles on the issue of price in the European and American markets.